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Reprint  and  Circular  Series 

OF  THE 

National  Research 
Council 


distribution  of  graduate  fellowships  and  scholarships 
between  the  arts  and  the  sciences 


Compiled  by  Calue  Hull  and  Clarence  J.  West 


Published  in  School  and  Society 
April  15,  1922,  Vol.  XV,  No.  381,  Pages  424-428 


DISTRIBUTION   OF   GRADUATE   FELLOWSHIPS    AND    SCHOLAR- 
SHIPS BETWEEN  THE  ARTS  AND  THE  SCIENCES 


Di'RiNTi  a  survoy  of  various  ediitiitioiial  in- 
stitutions by  the  Educational  Relations  Divi- 
sion of  the  National  Research  Council,  it  seemed 
desirable  to  ascertain  the  relative  support  given 
to  the  arts  and  the  sciences  in  our  universities. 
One  indication  of  this  support  may  be  found 
in  the  number  of  felllowships  granted  in  each 
of  these  two  fields.  At  the  suggestion  of  Pro- 
fessor C.  E.  McClung,  the  Research  Informa- 
tion Service  requested  twelve  of  our  leading 
universities  to  furnish  information  concerning 
the  subject  distribution  of  fellowships  and 
scholarships  awarded  in  the  graduate  school  of 
arts  and  sciences  or  its  equivalent  during  the 
past  five  years.  Due  to  a  misunderstanding, 
this  five  year  period  was  not  uniform  for  all  of 

TABLE  I 

Distribution'    of    Fellowships    and    Scholar- 
ships HY  Years 
UNIVERSITY  1916  1917  1918  1919  1920  1921 

California    41  28  30  35       43 

Chicago    103  6G  93  95       69 

Columbia   65  61  14  31  61 

Cornell  41  41  41  41  41       41 

Harvard  129  76  78  125  130 

Illinois  80  50  50  59  51 

Johns    Hopkins ....  76  72  58  68  62 

Michigan   41  26  23  30  38 

Pennsylvania    71  62.5  46.5  55.5  61.5    .... 

Stanford    2         2         5  10  10 

Wisconsin    65  72  58  86       

Yale   82  58  55  94  96 

the  returns  and  complete  data  are  awailable  only 
for  the  four  collegiate  years  191G,  1917,  1918, 
and  1919. 

The  twelve  universities  listed  in  Table  I  re- 
ported 3,377  fellowships.  This  table  shows  the 
distribution  by  years.  The  halves  appearing  in 
this  and  the  following  tables  are  due  to  the 
practice  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
sometimes  dividing  the  university  fellowships 
(providing  simply  for  the  remission  of  tuition 
fees)  into  halves,  in  order  to  aid  certain  teach- 
ers or  students  who  can  not  carry  a  suflicient 
amount  of  work  to  enable  them  to  hold  a  full 
fellowship. 


The  distribution  between  the  arts  and  the 
sciences  is  given  in  Table  II.  Harvard  has  the 
largest  number  of  fellowships  during  this 
perkid,  538.  Chicago  follows  with  406,  Yale 
has  385,  Wisconsin  and  Johns  Hopkins  336 
each;  the  others  have  less  than  300. 

TABLE  II 
Distribution  or  Fellowships  and  Scholarships 

Between  Arts  and  Sciences 
university  arts  sciences  total 

PURE     applied 

California    77  64  36  177 

Chicago    201  205  ....  400 

Columbia   138  73  6  217 

Cornell     110  68  30  208 

Harvard  385  153  538 

Illinois     148  121  21  290 

Johns    Hopkins ....  157  179  ....  336 

MicTTiiyitn  58  73  27  158 

Pennsylvania    201.5  93.5  2  297 

Stanford    10  18  1  29 

Wisconsin    197  88  51  336 

Yale   210  153  22  385 

Totals     1,892.5      1,288.5       196        3,377 

In  the  arts  Harvard  also  leads  with  385  fel- 
lowships; Yale  has  210  and  Pennsylvania  and 
Chicago  tie  for  third  place  with  201  each.  In 
the  sciences  Chicago  leads  with  205,  with  Johns 
Hopkins  second,  179,  while  Yale  follows  with 
175  and  Harvard  with  153.  The  order  for  the 
applied  sciences  is:  Wisconsin  51,  California 
36,  Cornell  30,  Michigan  27,  Yale  22,  and  Illi- 
nois 21. 

The  distribution  by  individual  subjects  for 
the  five  year  period  is  shown  in  Table  III.  A 
summary  of  Table  III  follows: 

A. — Arts — Architecture,  10;  ancient  lan- 
guages, 250;  English  and  modern  languages, 
615.5;  philology,  4;  philosophy,  197.5;  educa- 
tion, 80;  fine  arts,  17;  manual  arts,  5;  history, 
328;  economics,  171.5;  home  economics,  21; 
political  science,  153;  sociology,  40. 

B. — Pure  Sciences — Astronomy,  28;  archaeo- 
logy, 20;  biology,  400.5;  chemistry,  365;  geo- 
graphy, 12;  geology,  104;  mathematics,  145; 
physics,  152.5  psychology,  63.5. 


SCHOOL  AND  SOCIETY 


TABLE  111— Continued 
Distribution  of  Fellowships  and  Scholarships  by  Subject 


Chemistry  

Geography    

Physiogeography 


Total  

Geology  

Mathematics    

Physics   

Psychology     

See  also  Philosophy 
and       psychology 

under  A.  Arts 

TOTAL    FOR   PUKE 
SCIENCES    


C.     APPLIED 
SCIENCES 

Agriculture    -• 

Agricultural     bacteri- 
ology   

Agricultural  chemistry 
Agricultural  economics 
Agricultural  education 

Agronomy  

Animal   husbandry 

Dairy   husbandry 

Horticulture  

Soils    


Total  

Ceramics  

Engineering  . 
Architectural 


engi- 


neering     

Chemical    engineering 

Civil  engineering 

Electrical  engineering 
Highway  engineering 
Hydraulic  engineering 
Mechanical  engineer- 
ing   

Mechanical    and    elec- 
trical engineering.... 
Steam   and    gas   engi- 
neering    


Total  

Medicine  

Public   health 

Research  medicine 


Total  

Pharmacy  

TOTAL        IN        AP- 
PLIED SCIENCES 


1915-16 


17 


1916-17 


55 


1 
19 
31 
32 1/2 
11 


242 


1917-18 


16 

1 

1 
8 
5 
1 
2 

2 

2 

1 

23 
1 
1 

2 
2 

43 


53 
2 

2 
25 
25 
32 
12 


252 


14 
1 
1 


18 
4 


4 
1 

38 


1918-19 

1919-20 

68 
2 

68 
2 

2 

2 

8 

24 

23 

29 

191/2 

27% 

9 

14 

198 

281 

1 

1 

1 

4 

1 
2 
3 

"2 

"i 
1 

1 
2 

10 

11 

1 

1 

16 

"2 
3 

"3 
3 
3 

"2 

22 


29 
2 


45 


Indi- 

1920-21 

1921-22 

vidual 
Total 

82 

13 

2 

3 

11 
1 

2 

3 

19 

8 

29 

3 

35 

5 

151/2 

2 

2491/2 

58 

2 

1 

7 
7 

1 

10 
7 
1 

1 

10 
4 
4 
4 
4 

4 

1 

8 

27 
1 

3 

19 

2 

1 

19 

2 

15 

4 

6 
3 

1 

4 

2 

10 

1 

22 

1 

3 

4 

16 
1 

1 

4 

7 

4 

8 

1 

31 

10 

SUMMARY 


A.  Arts  

B.  Pure    science 

C.  Applied   science. 


1,8921/2 

1,288  y2 

196 


Grand 
Total 

365 


12 

104 
142 
152% 
63  Va 


1,288% 


105 


24 

7 


196 


TOTAL  3,377 


SCHOOL  AND  SOCIETY 


lowships,  and  the  interest  in  graduate  work  on 
the  part  of  students  as  shown  by  the  number 
of  candidates  for  doctorates.  It  seems  possible 
that  these  two  measures  of  interest  in  graduate 
work  may  be  related  to  each  other.  With  this 
possibility  in  view  Table  IV  was  compiled  to 
show  the  number  of  fellowships  assigned  as 
compared  with  the  number  of  doctorates  con- 
ferred in  a  given  year  by  each  of  the  twelve 


universities.  The  compilation  was  necessarily 
limited  to  the  natural  sciences,  as  no  informa- 
tion regarding  doctorates  conferred  in  the  arts 
was  available  to  the  Research  Information 
Service. 

In  some  of  the  institutions,  it  will  be  noted 
that  there  is  a  close  parallelism  between  the 
figures,  whereas  in  others  there  is  no  apparent 
relation. 


TABLE  IV 

COMPAKISON  OF  FELLOWSHIPS  AND   DOCTOBATES   IN  THE   SCIENCES 


UNIVERSITY 


California     

Chicago  

Columbia    

Cornell    

Harvard   

Illinois    

Johns  Hopkins 

Michigan    

Pennsylvania  - 

Stanford  

Wisconsin  

Yale    


1916-1917 

1917-1918 

1918-1919 

1919-1920 

1920-1921 

F.     D. 

F.     D. 

F.     D. 

F.     D. 

F.     D. 

23     23 

16     16 

15     16 

21     14 

25     22 

39 

49     55 

29     28 

47     43 

43     42 

21     37 

24     24 

3     11 

7     24 

21     27 

19     38 

19     30 

19     21 

19     35 

21     33 

40     39 

21     15 

21     14 

32     28 

39     25 

42     24 

25     23 

27     15 

25     22 

23     19 

37     24 

37      7 

32      7 

39     21 

33     21 

26     13 

15     8 

13     4 

22     9 

24      7 

28      7 

21     10 

7      8 

23      5 

16     5 

4 

2 

2      2 

4      4 

5     5 

30     17 

26     16 

19      9 

34     24 

15 

31     25 

21     9 

31     4 

52     23 

40     27 

D     000  562  691     6 


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